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Tories plot to 'hammer nail in coffin' of Chagos deal within hours as crunch Washington meeting could prove fatal for Keir Starmer's 'surrender' pact Sir Keir Starmer’s £35billion Chagos deal faces a “relentless” challenge after a top Tory told GB News she intends to put the “nail in the coffin” of the Prime Minister’s handover of the Indian Ocean archipelago. Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel is jetting off to Washington tomorrow to meet with senior officials in Donald Trump’s administration. Dame Priti’s trip comes after concerted efforts by Tory veteran Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to encourage the White House to move against the Prime Minister’s deal. The Witham MP, who is also scheduled to discuss the significance of the special relationship at the Hudson Institute next Wednesday, made clear to GB News that she will “keep fighting against the deal until it is scrapped once and for all”. Speaking to The People’s Channel ...

Starmer’s obsession with international law has reduced Britain’s utility as an ally Daily Telegraph 19/02/26 Starmer is now in a real bind over the Chagos Islands Credit: Reuters In blocking US forces from using RAF airbases to bomb Iran, Sir Keir Starmer has surpassed himself. The Government is reportedly concerned that facilitating strikes could be a breach of international law. As a result, it has diminished the ability of the United States to conduct combat operations, reduced Britain’s utility as an ally and demolished Sir Keir’s flagship Chagos policy. It is an outstanding illustration of the legalistic, process-driven approach of the Prime Minister. One of the earliest actions in office of Sir Keir, and his Attorney General Richard Hermer, was the revision of Britain’s attitude to international law. The result has been paralysis, with the state effectively unable to act within the constraints it has imposed upon itself. From Sir Keir’s decision on the use of RAF bases, it...

The plot to topple the next Right-wing government has already begun Daily Telegraph 18/02/26 Britain is not merely broken: it has been hacked to pieces by a nihilistic ruling class committed to dismembering our society. The methodical ruthlessness of the Left-wing barbarians responsible, the relentlessness of their vandalism, the thoroughness of their infiltration of our institutions is such that it will take at least a decade for a future Right-wing Government to rebuild the UK, as well as extraordinary competence, planning and strategic nous. The odds are stacked against such a project, but it is our only hope. Any potential Right-wing government, Reform, born-again Tory, or a combination thereof, must grasp the scale of the task ahead. The original sin was the ousting of Margaret Thatcher by Europhile Conservative wets in 1990, after which the elites blundered relentlessly. Almost every important decision of the past 36 years, by Labour, Tories and coalition Lib Dems alike – ...

Only weeks after defecting, former Tory beats party stalwarts Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf to top post Daily Telegraph 17/02/26 Robert Jenrick is to be unveiled as Reform UK’s shadow chancellor just over a month after defecting from the Conservatives. The former Tory cabinet minister has beaten former Reform leader Richard Tice and head of policy Zia Yusuf to the job despite having only been in the party for weeks. Mr Yusuf will be instead named as Reform’s shadow home secretary and Mr Tice will be given a new brief merging the business, energy and industry portfolios. The party will also unveil a new foreign affairs spokesman. The appointment, first revealed by The Telegraph, will be seen as an attempt by Nigel Farage to boost his party’s economic credibility. Reform UK has been ahead in the opinion polls since May but voters still see the Conservatives as more trustworthy on the economy. Mr Farage will use a press conference on Tuesday to try and persuade voters he shows he has...

The move follows The Telegraph’s campaign against Labour’s attack on democracy Daily Telegraph 16/02/26 Having spent weeks defending its decision to cancel elections to around 30 local councils in England, the Government has unexpectedly abandoned the idea in the latest U-turn staged by No 10. This newspaper has campaigned from the outset against what was by any measure an attack on democracy. Lawyers acting for Reform UK were proposing to argue that the Government was misusing powers under the Local Government Act 2000 that were never intended to allow the postponement of elections other than in exceptional circumstances. Labour had claimed that the looming reorganisation of local authorities would make elections expensive, complicated and unnecessary. Steve Reed, the Local Government Secretary, had already told MPs that he was tabling powers under the Act and was still defending his decision last week. But, in a letter published yesterday, he said that he was withdrawing his de...

Reform UK launches legal challenge to Starmer’s decision to deny 4.6 million people the vote Daily Telegraph 15/02/26 Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to cancel local elections is an abuse of power that threatens the foundations of British democracy, the High Court will hear. In a legal challenge to the decision to cancel some of May’s elections, lawyers acting for Reform UK will argue that Labour acted out of political interest to deny 4.6 million people the right to vote. In court documents seen by The Telegraph, they claim it is “patently irrational” to postpone elections in peacetime and that it “stands in contradiction to the basis of the country, namely democratic rights and the basis of individual rights”. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, is expected to appear at the High Court for both days of the hearing next Thursday and Friday. Writing for The Telegraph on Saturday, Mr Farage accuses Sir Keir Starmer of “running scared” from voters who are being denied a chance to sen...

PM to deliver speech in Munich calling for UK to work more closely with EU on defence Daily Telegraph 14/02/26 Sir Keir Starmer will claim the UK is no longer “the Britain of the Brexit years” when he addresses world leaders in Munich. The Prime Minister will argue that Britain should work more closely with the EU on defence, and will urge Europe to end its over-dependence on the United States. In a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Sir Keir will claim that turning inwards would amount to a “surrender” of control during an era of heightened international instability. “We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore,” he will say. “Because we know that, in dangerous times, we would not take control by turning inward – we would surrender it. And I won’t let that happen. “There is nThe Chancellor’s comments represented a significant shift in tone. In January, she said Britain could not “go back in time” in its relationship with the EU. Europe ‘must reduce d...

The Palestine Action ruling means it is no longer politicians taking the ultimate decisions on national security; it is the judiciary Daily Telegraph 13/02/26 We live in a democracy under the rule of law, so the High Court’s ruling on the prescription of Palestine Action (PA) must be respected. Be clear, however, about what it means: it is another example of how it is no longer politicians, elected by and answerable to voters, who take the ultimate decisions on national security and protection of the public from terror. It is the judiciary. When the High Court rules, as it did today, that “the proscription of Palestine Action was disproportionate” and that “a very small number of Palestine Action’s activities amounted to acts of terrorism within the definition of section 1 of the 2000 Act”, it is imposing its will and its view of the threat posed by a group and individuals over that of ministers and Parliament. Legitimately so, of course, since that is the nature of judicial revi...

Time was when political scandals rocked nations and altered history. Watergate wasn’t just a bad headline or a name-calling spat, it was burglary, taped conversations, perjury and congressional hearings. Profumo had a serious breach of national security and a romantic affair to boot. Now, though, we have 21st-century scandal-lite: confected outrage for clicks, trivial infractions inflated into “crises” by opportunistic politicians who still think they’re in the student union. At Prime Minister’s Questions this week, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch traded blows that most people wouldn’t notice, much less care about. Two-Tier (or Still-Here as he’s reminding us) declared that Robert Jenrick should have been sacked for saying there were no white faces in parts of Birmingham. This was a statement of demographic fact, not some racial slur, as the perpetually incandescent This is no Watergate Daily Telegraph 11/02/26 Left claims. Anyone who has walked through certain districts of our majo...

The destructive fools of Westminster are needlessly pushing Britain towards a gilts and sterling crisis Daily Telegraph 10/02/26 Britain is acquiring a bad reputation for hounding its leaders out of power in rapid succession and in petulant fashion, lurching from one set of policies to another with no economic or political compass. What I notice in my job covering the world economy is a creeping change in tone. A narrative is taking hold that this country is degenerating into an intractable and feral condition, prone to going down every rabbit hole of the culture war and lacking the discipline to see anything through. This is a dangerous reputation to have for a country that is running a large structural trade deficit, needs constant inflows of foreign capital, and has still not expunged the stain of the Liz Truss episode. Bond markets have become acutely sensitive to any sign of fiscal slippage anywhere on the planet. They will punish states that stray – even America, with the ex...

Sir Keir Starmer has clung on to his premiership after his whole Cabinet were strong-armed into backing his leadership. Daily Telegraph 09/02/26 Every member of Sir Keir’s top team publicly voiced their support within just over an hour of Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, calling for Sir Keir to resign. Ministers were ordered by Downing Street to tweet their support for Sir Keir in an attempt to quell the Labour rebellion, The Telegraph understands. Special advisers in No 10, who are directly appointed by the Prime Minister, called ministers this afternoon to ask them to tweet their support. Cabinet members were the first to tweet their support, at the same time as Mr Sarwar was delivering a speech calling for Sir Keir’s departure. Posts endorsing the Prime Minister from more junior ministers and backbenchers came later. Sir Keir will attempt to shore up his premiership when he faces his backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party tonight. Mr Sarwar has...

Breaking news......... Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff in the wake of the Mandelson scandal. The Prime Minister’s right-hand man quit after a backlash to him pushing for Lord Mandelson to be appointed ambassador to the US. Mr McSweeney insisted Lord Mandelson was the best man for the job in Washington despite being warned twice by civil servants about the peer’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The resignation will be seen as a final chance for Sir Keir to reverse his political fortunes after more than a year and a half of his political authority draining away. Lord Mandelson was appointed despite Downing Street knowing about his ongoing friendship with the paedophile even after Epstein was convicted of child sex crimes. Fresh revelations about the connections between the two men have plunged Sir Keir into the worst crisis of his premiership. Mutinous Labour MPs had threatened to back a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister if he refused to g...

PM’s supporters say new Left-wing agenda would require fresh mandate Daily Telegraph 06/02/26 A leadership coup by Angela Rayner would trigger a general election, Sir Keir Starmer’s allies warned rebels. Supporters of the Prime Minister said on Friday that Ms Rayner’s Left-wing policy platform would require her to obtain a new mandate from the British people. Ms Rayner, a former deputy prime minister, argued in 2022 that the Tories switching leaders from Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and then to Rishi Sunak required fresh elections. Sir Keir is facing questions about his future as leader after his judgment was called into question over his appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US last year, despite the peer’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Rayner reportedly told friends she had warned Sir Keir not to appoint Lord Mandelson because of the public evidence of his friendship with the paedophile. Some Labour MPs have told The Telegraph that Sir Keir has three weeks ...

Daily Telegraph 06/02/26 Is it all over for Keir Starmer, one of Britain’s least popular Prime Ministers? His only hope may be that as Lord Mandelson’s egregious conduct becomes a police matter, it might buy Two-Tier a little time. If investigators don’t begin interviews until next week, he could limp through the weekend and vanish into recess, possibly on another of his foreign trips. After which the PLP will struggle to ditch him before May – even if Labour loses Gorton and Denton, as seems more than possible since blocking Andy Burnham’s attempt to stand as an MP. Today’s car crash press conference should have been a moment, finally, for at least a show of contrition. Instead, it was an exercise in misplaced indignation, Gollum-like self-pity, and the all-too-familiar lawyerly attempt to downplay the nature of Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, even though far too much evidence of their friendship has long been in the public domain. In perhaps the worst display of bu...

The grotesque Mandelson scandal is an epoch-defining indictment of the Labour establishment Daily Telegraph 05/02/26 He is a pathological liar who sold out his country to a foreign paedophile, a sordid, venal Machiavelli who personifies the Dark Tetrad of psychological traits, the reason why Sir Keir Starmer is about to be booted out of Downing Street, but might Peter Mandelson have actually once told the truth? “Petey”, as his mentor Jeffrey Epstein nicknamed him, titled his autobiography The Third Man, perhaps alluding not just to his central role, alongside Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, in building New Labour, including its culture of spin and bullying, but also to the 1949 film noir of the same name, set in Allied-occupied Vienna. The film’s anti-hero, the “third man” in question, played by Orson Welles, was a chThe US Department of Justice emails implicate Mandelson in Britain’s greatest political scandal since the Profumo affair. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of procuring a c...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to sack his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. politics Home 03/02/26 On Tuesday, Mandelson, who was a key figure in the New Labour administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, announced that he was resigning from the House of Lords amid the growing scandal over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The government has also given material to the police after newly disclosed files showed Mandelson sharing confidential and high-level UK government information with Epstein. The Met announced on Tuesday night that it was investigating Mandelson for misconduct in public office. While most Labour MP fury is directed toward Mandelson, there are also renewed calls for Starmer to remove McSweeney, who was instrumental in the decision to appoint him as the UK ambassador to the US. Starmer sacked Mandelson from his ambassador role in S...

Why did a party so assured of its own saintliness keep on resurrecting the scandal-prone ‘Prince of Darkness’? Spiked 03/02/25 To misquote Jeffrey Epstein, ‘Bad Petey’. We already knew from previous releases of the Epstein Files that Peter Mandelson was overly chummy with the world’s most notorious nonce. We’d seen the photos of Mandy in various Ken-like outfits chatting with his ‘best pal’. We’d read his birthday wishes to the dodgy financier who just loved to share his ‘glorious homes… with his friends (yum yum)’. And we knew that he’d urged Epstein to ‘fight for early release’ after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. But now we know just how corrupt their relationship was, thanks to the latest dump from the Epstein files. First, we discovered that during the 2000s, Mandelson allegedly received three separate donations of $25,000 from Epstein, plus an extra £10,000 for Mandelson’s future husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, to...

Is Andy Burnham a power player? Or just playing at power? lowcstaus opinions blog 03/02/26 British politics is in a constant state of flux. Parties built on the backs of working men transition, seemingly overnight, into ideological playgrounds for an out of touch, gentrified, gender bending elite. Yesterday’s military heroes are hounded through the courts by a government which states that today its ‘highest priority’, is servicing the needs of foreign activists, who encourage their followers to kill white people, police officers, and Jews. Weirdo insurgent parties run by gap toothed boob boosters and economically illiterate communists swoop in from nowhere, to gobble up millions of votes. And the once dependable Conservative Party, burns through useless, clueless Prime Ministers, faster than Bonnie Blue burns through paramours. It’s an ever shifting political landscape, dynamic, distracting, dizzying, and discombobulating. But however confusing things get, there is one rock,...